f} 80 G THE, NE, \\'l' YORKE,R LISTS A T THIS SE.ASON SOME. VOLUME.S BY ITS CONTRIBUTORS (All or a considerable part of the contents of each of these hooks first appeared in this magazine.) The Road Back to Paris, by A. J. Lieb- ling (Doubleday Doran $3). The observations and personal record of aNew Yorker correspondent in France, England, North Africa, and on the high seas, from the fall of France through most of 1943. Remarkably well-informed stories of the struggle for goals now won. The Better Taylors, by Richard Taylor (Randolll H ouse $2.50). Mr. Taylor's first collection of drawings of his round-eyed people, mostly women, in about a hundred and seventy-five pre- dicaments. The Portable Dorothy Parker (Viking $2) . All the poems from "K ot So Deep as a Well" and all the stories from" Here Lies," the author's two previous collections, to.. gether with five stories and a poem never before in book form. The definitive Parker. The Summer Landscape, by Rolfe Humphries (Scribner $1.75). A new collection of verse by a sensitive and gifted lyrìc poet. Spots by Suba (Dutton $1). A small volume of this artist's graceful and witty black-and-\vhite drawings of children, grownups, and animals, which have long decorated the pages of The New Yorker. Crazy like a Fox, by S. J. Perelman (Random H ouse $2.50). Any subject that the old master wants to tackle is doomed to devastation. In this new compilation, he takes on forty-six, from beekeeping to oral hygiene, and the result is the usual chaos. Grandmother and the Comet, by Vic- toria Lincoln ( Farrar é.;; Rine hart. $2.50). The author of "February Hill" presents thirty diverting short stories which, in a subtitle, she disarmingly calls "insubstan- tia1." They are interspersed with nearly a dozen brief poems. Is It Anyone We Know? by George Price (Murray Hill $2.49). A collection of all the cartoons from t\VO earlier books, "Good-Humor Man" and "It's Smart to Be People," and twenty-five cartoons that have not appeared in a book before. Some three hundred drawings of Price's frowzy but engaging people. Pétain, the Old Man of France, by Janet Flanner (Simon G Schuster, $1). A full and often mordant portrait of the Marshal and a compact history of the Third Republic. Peter Arno's Man in the Shower (Simon G Schuster $2.50). This is the artist's first album to appear in three years. Besides the title picture, there are a hundred and fourteen other lively drawings of the Arno \vorld. Take Them up Tenderly, by Margaret Case Harriman (Knopf, $2.75). Profiles of fifteen people who are either intimately or vaguely connected with the theatre. How the author takes them up doesn't matter as much as ho,v she sets them do,vn. Feeling No Pain, by Sydney Hoff (Dial Press $2.50). Hoff's first collection of drawings. Almost two hundred glimpses of his ladies and gentlemen of the Bronx and the Rocka- ways, generally harassed and often in their underwear. Love and Admiration, by Louise Field Cooper (Duell, Sloan é;; Pearce $2.50). Twenty-five polished short pieces, mostly fiction, about suburban life, by a writer who understands its humor and complex- ity. Small Fry, by William Steig (Duell Sloan é;; Pearce, $1.50). An album of the Steig urchins. brats, and minor angels, from the depression years to the Commando era. More than a hundred pictures of juvenile rascals. NOW ON 5 ALé ""'" g to contain seventy-seven verses), pret- tily illustrated in delicate colors, in a style which, without being imitative, re- calls Kate Greenaway's. KATY NO-POCKET, by Emmy Payne, illus- trated by H. A. Rey (Houghton Mif- fEn) . Unfortunate Katy was a mother kangaroo who had no pocket in which to carry her baby. How she solved this dilemma for herself and her son, F red- dy, is told in a brief, ingenious story and in big pictures done in Rey's best comic veIn. GORDON THE GOAT, written and illus- trated by Munro Leaf (Lippincott). Gordon was a goat from Texas who, so far as having a mind of his own went, might almost as well have been a sheep. But when the lead goat steered him right into a tornado, Gordon learned to be independent. Though Mr. Leaf has not produced another "Ferdinand," children will certainly laugh at his pictures of Gordon in a twister. PRETZEL, by Margret Rey, illustrated by H. A. Rey (Harper). Another success- ful Rey picture book with funny illus- trations, in strong colors, which portray the life, courtship, and marriage of Pretzel, a very long red dachshund. Greta was black, only medium long, and rather disdainful, but in the end she succumbed to Pretzel's dominant per- sonality. ANIMAL STORIES, by Georges Duplaix, illustrated by Feodor Rojankovsky (Si- mon & Schuster). This big, handsome volume is less a book to read straight through than a huge nursery grab bag to dip into from time to time for stories, verses, alphabets, tales in glorified com- ic-strip form-all of them about ani- mals. Rojankovsky's pictures have style, rich color, and humorous detail. THE HORSE WHO LIVED UPSTAIRS, by Phyllis McGinley, illustrated by Helen Stone (Lippincott). An agreeable book for a child of Manhattan on the fa- miliar theme of the city horse who longed for the country but who, once he got there, pined for his upstairs city stable and his interesting metropolitan life. The author has dressed up her fable with some knowing N ew York de- tail, and the artist, a newcomer of dis- tinction, has contributed delightful pic- tures. PRAYER FOR A CHILD, by Rachel Field. illustrated by Elizabeth Orton Jones (Macmillan). Rachel Field wrote this simple and touching prayer for her own daughter. Here the prayer is made into a picture book with twelve pages in clear, soft colors to illustrate the twen- ty-two lines of the poem. Little children, memorizing the words and studying the pictures, will find that they treat of familiar things which are close to their hearts. PANDORA, written and illustrated by Clare Turlay Newberry (Harper). Pandora is a Persian cat, and surely no Persian has ever been better portrayed than this one is in the luscious crayon portraits and the expert pen-and-ink pictures which fill the big pages of this handsome book. The text is first-rate, too-the briefest of stories, about a mischievous cat, an inquiring small boy, and a dis... tracted mother who are right out of life. . THE PARK BOOK, by Charlotte Zoloto\v,